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Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

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858 points colesantiago | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.255s | source
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Workaccount2 ◴[02 Sep 25 20:52 UTC] No.45108892[source]▶
Firefox can still get money, and maybe Apple too. The ruling says they can pay for preload, but not for exclusivity.

Google also must share search data with competitors, but it's not totally clear what this is. The ruling mentions helping other engines with "long tail" queries.

All in all this seems like a pretty mild ruling, and an appeal can generally only help Google from a not to bad ruling at this point.

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1. makeitdouble ◴[02 Sep 25 23:02 UTC] No.45110250[source]▶
Google being allowed to pay Firefox or Apple whatever they want makes the exclusivity restriction pretty moot.

If Google pays Apple 3x more than OpenAI and Apple sets Google as default "because of market research, not because of the money", we're firmly in the status quo. So much as Google can modulate how much it pays Apple depending on how friendly they've been to Google in the last round.